The aim of this paper is to attract the reader’s attention on the treatment of the sounds of nature by British poets in the pre-Romantic and Romantic era. It is demonstrated that, at a time when the age-old topos of world harmony was at bay in an increasingly dechristianized Europe, poets endeavoured to revive the idea of a pact of man with nature through the notion of aural sensation. From Thomson to Keats, natural noises and sounds came to the status of traces of the transcendence. In texts such as The Task (Cowper) or “On the Power of Sound” (Wordsworth), the topos of locus amoenus and that of harmony are outlined so as to point to an evanescent unity at work in nature which it is the poet’s task to find and to bring to the knowledge of ...
The meaning that sounds carry has always mattered to poetry but in a culture developing new communic...
Born of an interdisciplinary project exploring ecoacoustic representations of birdsounds through bio...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation demonstrates that both Robert Browning and...
The aim of this paper is to attract the reader’s attention on the treatment of the sounds of nature ...
This thesis examines the imaginative richness of literary synaesthesia, the use of the terminology o...
This article explores the importance of the Lake District’s soundscape for Romantic conceptions of s...
This thesis examines the manifestations of musicality and harmony in the works of William Wordsworth...
The spiritual poet and teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan taught us that 'One moment standing in the midst o...
William Wordsworth has long been considered one of the greatest British Romantic poets, and critical...
In the history of criticism, the British Romantic period has always remained one of the most challen...
Music in its essence dispenses with words completely, and tunes, help in imparting its true and deep...
As Hogarth’s famous print, The Enraged Musician, makes clear, “sound” and “noise” are antithetical n...
This study has attempted to examine the use of nature as a vehicle to express thoughts in the Englis...
“Lyric Mindedness” recovers conversations between Romantic-era poetics and the science of the embodi...
none1noMusic as a Science of Man offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectu...
The meaning that sounds carry has always mattered to poetry but in a culture developing new communic...
Born of an interdisciplinary project exploring ecoacoustic representations of birdsounds through bio...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation demonstrates that both Robert Browning and...
The aim of this paper is to attract the reader’s attention on the treatment of the sounds of nature ...
This thesis examines the imaginative richness of literary synaesthesia, the use of the terminology o...
This article explores the importance of the Lake District’s soundscape for Romantic conceptions of s...
This thesis examines the manifestations of musicality and harmony in the works of William Wordsworth...
The spiritual poet and teacher Hazrat Inayat Khan taught us that 'One moment standing in the midst o...
William Wordsworth has long been considered one of the greatest British Romantic poets, and critical...
In the history of criticism, the British Romantic period has always remained one of the most challen...
Music in its essence dispenses with words completely, and tunes, help in imparting its true and deep...
As Hogarth’s famous print, The Enraged Musician, makes clear, “sound” and “noise” are antithetical n...
This study has attempted to examine the use of nature as a vehicle to express thoughts in the Englis...
“Lyric Mindedness” recovers conversations between Romantic-era poetics and the science of the embodi...
none1noMusic as a Science of Man offers a philosophical and historical perspective on the intellectu...
The meaning that sounds carry has always mattered to poetry but in a culture developing new communic...
Born of an interdisciplinary project exploring ecoacoustic representations of birdsounds through bio...
grantor: University of TorontoThis dissertation demonstrates that both Robert Browning and...